Plumbing

How do I know if my room has hot and cold water supply?

Anonymous user 18/02/2024 - 2.30 PM

We're looking to have a box room on the second floor of our house converted into a bathroom. We're all but certain that this room was a bathroom previously (we only moved in 2 years ago) because on the outside of the house you can see where the waste pipes came out of the wall and joined the main soil pipe, which also still has the joints where the waste pipes joined it. Before booking a bathroom fitter and buying all of the bathroom stuff I want to be sure that there is still a hot and cold water supply to the room. I'm hoping that the pipes are in there, maybe under the floor, and just capped off. I've pulled up a few floorboards and there are plenty of copper pipes under there. There is a pair which comes up from below (there is a bathroom directly below this room), both of which head across the room towards the radiator, although only one seems to go all the way there. I don't know where the other one ends. Could it be the hot or cold supply? Or might it also be linked to the central heating, even though it doesn't go as far as the radiator? There's another copper pipe which come up from the room below, alongside the pair mentioned above, but it continues up behind the skirting and, from what I can tell by jiggling it, ends behind the skirting. Could this be the hot or cold supply? How would I know? It's a pain not knowing exactly what I'm looking for to confirm the present of hot and cold water supplies! Thanks in advance! EDIT: Just to add, following Thermotek's helpful answer: The bathroom below the room in question is tiled from floor to ceiling on all four walls in large hard-to-match tiles, so whilst bringing a feed up from below might ordinarily be trivial, in this case it may be quite difficult.

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Frinton On Sea

One surefire way of telling if one of these pipes is a hot supply is by running a hot tap nearby and feeling the pipe for changes in temperature. In relation to your question, most domestic sized properties don’t cause any hassle when piping up new feeds to other areas of the house. I would advise to get a plumber in just to check over everything and that it is a viable option for yourself going forward.

Answered18 October 2023

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Dans the man

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If you can only find 3 pipes , seems like 2 are your flow and return for the heating, and the other may just be a cold feed , that could of just been a feed to the toilet and a electric shower in that room, you really need to get a plumber in to have a look if there is a bathroom below not much work to run a feed from below.

Answered2 November 2023

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D & C Ramsell Plumbing & Heating/Bathrooms & Tiling

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Gravesend

Hi..in relation to the pipework, turn the heating on & see what pipes get hot & that will tell you which ones are the heating..the one behind the skirting could of been the cold to the toilet ( do you know what the layout of the old bathroom was, it may help in deciding which pipes went where)..take some more boards up if you can & see if the 2 pipes in question are capped off..hope this helps

Answered17 November 2023

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